What Does This Mean,Over Saturation?

Sad but true.

No ... bit of sarcasm, I believe.

Oversaturation means that a lot of people are in that niche. Personally, I prefer low competition niches myself. Don't have to work as hard. Choose a highly saturated niche and you will be competing with a lot of other marketers for Google ranking and sales. Choose a low competition niche that has a profitable product to promote and you can get to the #1 position in Google without too much trouble and effort. That's just my opinion, and I'm sure others have different ones.

Well I certainly havent made any money online yet. Have you??!?!?

They are different stores, and cater to a different market. One next to another WILL affect income, but not that much. HECK, I pass a krogers before I go to wallgreens, near my home, and I generally go to WALLGREENS! WHY!?!? FASTER! LESS EFFORT! They are a DRUG STORE! They also happen to be open 24 hours, but I go there at all times. NOW, if I were to cook for a family, WHERE would I go? KROGERS! WHY? They are likely to have everything there! If I were to get dry milk, WHERE would I go? KROGERS! WHY? Does wallgreens even sell dry milk? MEAT? KROGERS! BAKERY? KROGERS! If I wanted to get a toy, I might go to wallgreens. Pictures? WALLGREENS! Gee, on the surface they may LOOK similar but they really AREN'T! KROGERS is a supermarket! WALLGREENS is a drug store/convenience store.

Gee, where I live there is a SCOTTS across the street from krogers THEY are real competitors! They are BOTH supermarkets with similar goods and similar checkout speeds. I usually go to krogers, and I can't REALLY tell you why, other than scotts is across a busy street. But what if krogers WEREN'T there? I would go to SCOTTS! And scotts and krogers DO run sales to compete.

AND, where krogers is, there are THREE major fast food franchises! Burger king, Wendy's, and KFC. They DO all sell different things. I have been to all three. I FREQUENT all three! HEY, sometimes I like something different. Even the burger king hamburgers are different from the wendys hamburgers. But what if there were only ONE franchise!?!? I might go there more often.

HEY, I never said the 1st site, or even the first page, was IT for google! That is STUPID! Sometimes I have to go through 10 pages just to find a site REALLY matching my query. But if you are #3 and they went down the list, you MIGHT lose out! If you were #11, the chances of losing increase SUBSTANTIALLY, assuming, of course, several before are valid sites.

I DID say all other things being equal.

BTW You say walgreens is THRIVING!?!?!? REALLY? Do they make over a trillion dollars a year? I bet if you figured worldwide sales for all that they are in that it WOULD be over a trillion dollars a year. So the idea of "thriving" in your definition is merely making a profit with what they have. HEY, sometimes a market will carry a new product line and shut it down ONLY because THEY couldn't make it work. The reason why THEY don't have the market is because they know they couldn't wrest it away from existing players.

BTW ironically one of the reasons I like wallgreens is because there is LITTLE traffic. Do you think if the two stores closed down that their business would increase substantially? PROBABLY! HECK, they may try to become like wallmart. BTW I go to walmart for electronics, etc... If I am there and hungry, I MIGHT think to get FOOD! Walmart is slower than krogers, and farther away. If they were where scotts is, I MIGHT go there. HECK, it COULD hurt wallgreens also, but wallgreens is still closer and faster.

OH, and target seems to be advertising more than walmart. I haven't looked around the two to really compare. Who knows, maybe people think target is faster, and go there for some things. Frankly, since I found walmart, I don't go to target anymore! So AGAIN, they LOST OUT! And some people HATE walmart for various reasons. Give them a choice, and it is ANYTHING but walmart.

BTW about 5 years ago a business store, I believe it was officemax, in my area, ****CLOSED****! It was a NICE store! When they had their last sale, I asked them WHY!!!!!! Do you know what the response was? Want to take a wild guess? YEP! Staples opened up like 4 or 5 blocks away, and they lost too much business! That HUGE area was vacant for a year or so. TODAY it is a BORDERS book store. While I am at it, over about 13 years ago, at least 2 towers stores in my area CLOSED! They did FINE until a big player came to town. I hadn't even heard of the competitor until then. Their competitor charged MORE for videos, but STILL seemed to somehow do well. Maybe it was advertising, convenience, whatever... They lived up to their name. Tower closed those places! TODAY? Well, that competitor opened them up under ITS brand! Their name? BLOCK BUSTER!

Steve